Exam question 2 · Brave Deeds, The Soldier and the Swede, part 7: a soldier…
What did Sir Walter Raleigh place across the muddy puddle for the queen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Walter place, muddy puddle
This is exam question 2 of lesson 347 «Brave Deeds, The Soldier and the Swede, part 7: a soldier spares a wounded enemy, and English heroes and a little Indian girl show courage» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Walter | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 place | compound |
| 5 | Raleigh | Raleigh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Walter | flat |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 puddle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 puddle | det |
| 9 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 puddle | amod |
| 10 | puddle | puddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 queen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Walter place | the muddy puddle | for the queen | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
His hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
His scarlet cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 2 | scarlet | scarlet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cloak | amod |
| 3 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The long red carpet from the great hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 carpet | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 carpet | amod |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 carpet | amod |
| 4 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 hall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hall | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hall | amod |
| 8 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carpet | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
His golden sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sword | nmod:poss |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sword | amod |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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